It would be nice to have widget access to window alert.

Example use:
- notify if user fails to ready (spring minimized)
- notify when game starts

can that be done through SDL? what is it called there?

http://pinvoke.net/default.aspx/user32.FlashWindowEx
win32: FlashWindowEx();

i couldn't find something similar in sdl...

http://doc.qt.nokia.com/latest/qapplication.html#alert gives cross-platform tips on making this happen. In Linux, http://standards.freedesktop.org/wm-spe ... atest.html, "_NET_WM_STATE_DEMANDS_ATTENTION" is what you'd be looking for. Example implementation without Qt: http://www.qtforum.org/article/12334/ta ... a360c7f175

For now maybe changing changing program icon/title would work?
viewtopic.php?f=14&t=26355
Could have it scroll messages in the taskbar like some music players do with song titles.

thanks Vadi.
i tried the code you linked to, replaced the two QT specific lines with SDL stuff, and it compiled and ran fine, but there was no flashing.

related SDL doc:
http://sdl.beuc.net/sdl.wiki/SDL_SysWMInfo

my code:
http://pastebin.com/0z7BF7p9

in case anyone wants to try to get it to run.

If you make this feature, please make an option to turn it off on user-side. Everybody doesn't want to have something non-important blinking on the task bar.



Ready = user is ready. If user hasn't marked ready then he probably isn't ready. No such thing as 'fail to ready'.

Jools it will be entirely up to mod makers to decide when it flashes.

There is such thing as fail to ready - there is timer in ZK games that countdowns to start. It gives each person 3 minutes and during this they are being ringed in lobby. If they fail to ready they are kicked and game force started.

Instead I would like spring window to flash.

And again it should flash when the game actually starts (which can be minutes after spring started).